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Julian Oliver is a new media artist and critical engineer from New Zealand. He lives and works in Berlin

Oliver won the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica in 2011 together with Russian Artist-Engineer Danja Vasiliev for the work Newstweek. Their collaboration has been discussed in, for example, the book New Art/Science Affinities.

Oliver gained early recognition for is work in Video game art in the 1990s, some of which dealt with contemporary political situations auch as the detention politics of the Australian Government (Escape from Woomera ).

He has exhibited widely, including at the Tate Modern, transmediale, Ars Electronica , FILE and V2 Institute for the Unstable Media.